Anna Nagar (state assembly constituency)

Anna Nagar
Anna Nagar
Constituency for the State Assembly
Constituency details
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Chennai
LS constituency	Chennai Central
Established	1977–present
Total electors	286,039
Most successful party	DMK (9 times)
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	M. K. Mohan
Party	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Elected year	2021

Coordinates: 13°05′05″N 80°13′04″E / 13.0846°N 80.2179°E / 13.0846; 80.2179

Anna Nagar is a state assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It includes the locality, Anna Nagar, which is in Chennai. It is part of the Chennai Central parliamentary constituency. Anna Nagar was one of 17 assembly constituencies to have VVPAT facility with EVMs in 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Members of the Legislative Assembly[]

Assembly	Year	Winner
Sixth	1977	M. Karunanidhi	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Seventh	1980	M. Karunanidhi	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Eighth	1984		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Ninth	1989	K. Anbazhagan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Tenth	1991	A. Chellakumar	Indian National Congress
Eleventh	1996	Arcot N. Veeraswami	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Twelfth	2001	Arcot N. Veeraswami	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Thirteenth	2006	Arcot N. Veeraswami	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Fourteenth	2011	S. Gokula Indira	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Fifteenth	2016	M. K. Mohan^[5]	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Sixteenth	2021	M. K. Mohan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election results[]

Vote share of Winning candidates

2021			48.95%
2016			41.59%
2011			58.67%
2006			46.20%
2001			48.20%
1996			67.05%
1991			57.29%
1989			49.94%
1984			52.59%
1980			48.97%
1977			50.10%

2021[]

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Anna Nagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	M. K. Mohan	80,054	48.95%	7.36%
	AIADMK	S. Gokula Indira	52,609	32.17%	-8.78%
	MNM	V. Ponraj	17,522	10.71%
	NTK	S. Shankar	10,406	6.36%	4.67%
	NOTA	Nota	1,545	0.94%	-1.39%
	AMMK	K. N. Gunasekaran	1,169	0.71%
		S. D. Prabhakar	408	0.25%
	BSP	D. Jeevithkumar	220	0.13%
	Independent	S. Sathyanarayanan	158	0.10%
	Independent	Hari Shankar	142	0.09%
	Independent	K. Sathish Kumar	125	0.08%
Margin of victory			27,445	16.78%	16.14%
Turnout			163,551	57.18%	-2.81%
Rejected ballots			726	0.44%
Registered electors			286,039
	DMK hold		Swing	7.36%

2016[]

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Anna Nagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	M. K. Mohan	70,812	41.59%
	AIADMK	S. Gokula Indira	69,726	40.95%	-17.73%
	BJP	Suresh K	8,832	5.19%	2.70%
	MDMK	Mallika Dayalan	6,384	3.75%
	PMK	Akhilesh A M	5,402	3.17%
	NOTA	None Of The Above	3,970	2.33%
	NTK	Amutha N	2,885	1.69%
	YSRCP	Kumaran P	476	0.28%
		Saravanaraja P	362	0.21%
	Independent	Babu D	293	0.17%
	Independent	Balaji S	250	0.15%
Margin of victory			1,086	0.64%	-23.50%
Turnout			170,281	59.99%	-6.85%
Registered electors			283,857
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-17.09%

2011[]

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Anna Nagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	S. Gokula Indira	88,954	58.67%
	INC	Arivazhagan V. K.	52,364	34.54%
	BJP	Haribabu P. K.	3,769	2.49%	-1.16%
	YSRCP	Jayaprakash J	763	0.50%
	Independent	Jawahar Nesan L	742	0.49%
	IJK	Mahalakshmi K	722	0.48%
	LSWP	Udhayakumar K	697	0.46%
	BSP	Kannan S	614	0.40%
	JMM	Alamuthu P	557	0.37%
		Kalaiarasan A	484	0.32%
	Independent	Santhanakumar S. M.	380	0.25%
Margin of victory			36,590	24.13%	18.42%
Turnout			226,836	66.84%	5.43%
Registered electors			151,608
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	12.47%

2006[]

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Anna Nagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Arcot N. Veeraswami	100,099	46.20%	-2.00%
	MDMK	Vijaya Thayanban	87,709	40.48%	36.30%
	LKPT	Rajamany. K.	11,665	5.38%
	BJP	Hande. H. V.	7,897	3.64%
	DMDK	Senthamarai Kannan. K.	6,594	3.04%
	Independent	Loganathan. V.	683	0.32%
	Independent	Balakrishnan. B.	443	0.20%
	Independent	Nagu. A.	422	0.19%
	Independent	Prema. V.	323	0.15%
	Independent	Hari. T.	312	0.14%
	Independent	Sivaraman. S.	166	0.08%
Margin of victory			12,390	5.72%	2.24%
Turnout			216,659	61.41%	18.81%
Registered electors			352,829
	DMK hold		Swing	-2.00%

2001[]

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Anna Nagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Arcot N. Veeraswami	77,353	48.20%	-18.84%
	PMK	Arumugam. C	71,775	44.73%
	MDMK	Appandurai. C	6,708	4.18%
	NCP	Kumaran. M	854	0.53%
	SP	Ashok N. S. D	687	0.43%
	Independent	Mohammed Ali. S	646	0.40%
	Independent	Achuthaiah. A	563	0.35%
	Independent	Ahamed. A. R	506	0.32%
	Independent	Thamilselvi. K	338	0.21%
	Independent	Bupal. R	338	0.21%
	Independent	Sivakumar. S. S	283	0.18%
Margin of victory			5,578	3.48%	-41.10%
Turnout			160,469	42.59%	-12.03%
Registered electors			376,745
	DMK hold		Swing	-18.84%

1996[]

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Anna Nagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Arcot N. Veeraswami	103,819	67.05%	30.47%
	INC	Balasubramanian. R.	34,802	22.48%	-34.81%
	CPI(M)	Varadarajan. K.	7,203	4.65%
	BJP	Elumalai. V.	3,625	2.34%	-0.72%
	PMK	Pandian. V. J.	2,576	1.66%
		Arunagiri. C.	542	0.35%
	Independent	David. J.	284	0.18%
	Independent	Chitty Babu. A.	184	0.12%
	Independent	John. D.	153	0.10%
	Independent	Saroja. N.	144	0.09%
	Independent	Anthony Raj. A.	132	0.09%
Margin of victory			69,017	44.57%	23.86%
Turnout			154,842	54.62%	3.72%
Registered electors			289,232
	DMK gain from INC		Swing	9.76%

1991[]

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Anna Nagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	A. Chellakumar	75,512	57.29%	41.14%
	DMK	S. M. Ramachandran	48,214	36.58%	-13.37%
	BJP	S. P. Ramakrishnan Alias Ramki	4,031	3.06%
	PMK	G. Selvam Alias Tamil Selvam	2,498	1.90%
	INS(SCS)	S. A. Ramamurthy	425	0.32%
	JP	A. M. Paulraj Vanigaotrumai	272	0.21%
		R. Nagarajan	123	0.09%
		M. Ragarajan	101	0.08%
	Independent	P. Jayaprakasam	92	0.07%
	Independent	D. Kannappan	79	0.06%
	Independent	S. Tathinakumar	62	0.05%
Margin of victory			27,298	20.71%	-1.96%
Turnout			131,814	50.90%	-13.66%
Registered electors			262,348
	INC gain from DMK		Swing	7.34%

1989[]

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Anna Nagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	K. Anbazhagan	71,401	49.94%	-2.64%
	AIADMK	Sukumar Babu. V. M	38,994	27.28%	-18.95%
	INC	Lakshmanan. G. M	23,083	16.15%
	AIADMK	Kothadaraman. V. M	7,089	4.96%	-41.27%
	Independent	Kothandaraman. V. M	617	0.43%
	Independent	Arumugam S. M	217	0.15%
	Independent	Natesan. M. M	169	0.12%
	Independent	Raman. V. P. M	130	0.09%
	Independent	Mani Nadar. A. T. M	128	0.09%
	Independent	Natarajan. M. M	126	0.09%
	Independent	Naina. A. M	105	0.07%
Margin of victory			32,407	22.67%	16.31%
Turnout			142,965	64.56%	1.76%
Registered electors			223,765
	DMK hold		Swing	-2.64%

1984[]

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Anna Nagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Ramachandran. S. M.	63,854	52.59%	3.61%
	AIADMK	Kothandaraman V.	56,128	46.22%	-2.08%
	Independent	Velu Ammaiyar	327	0.27%
	Independent	Manickan. A.	219	0.18%
	Independent	Ramachandaran. S.	178	0.15%
	Independent	Kothandan. N.	173	0.14%
	Independent	Kothandaramann. A.	163	0.13%
	Independent	Murukan (Alias) Nanjil Murukan	129	0.11%
	Independent	John Wilson. M.	128	0.11%
	Independent	Asokan. S.	128	0.11%
Margin of victory			7,726	6.36%	5.70%
Turnout			121,427	62.79%	0.54%
Registered electors			196,896
	DMK hold		Swing	3.61%

1980[]

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Anna Nagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	M. Karunanidhi	51,290	48.97%	-1.13%
	AIADMK	Hande. H. V	50,591	48.31%	17.32%
	JP	Jebamani. R	2,335	2.23%
	Independent	Akilan (Alias) Hari	166	0.16%
	Independent	Veerappa Gounder. V. T. R	96	0.09%
	Independent	Ramesh. B	70	0.07%
	Independent	Varadadesigan. O. A	67	0.06%
	Independent	Kanniappan. T	54	0.05%
	Independent	Velsami Nadar. S	34	0.03%
	Independent	Duraiswamy Nadar. N	28	0.03%
Margin of victory			699	0.67%	-18.45%
Turnout			104,731	62.25%	13.61%
Registered electors			169,720
	DMK hold		Swing	-1.13%

1977[]

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Anna Nagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DMK	M. Karunanidhi	43,076	50.10%
	AIADMK	G. Krishnamurthy	26,638	30.98%
	JP	T. Andiappan	10,419	12.12%
	INC	R. Jayachandran	5,258	6.12%
	Independent	K. George Mathew	262	0.30%
		V.N. Bajpai	162	0.19%
	Independent	Abdul Azeez	86	0.10%
	Independent	K. Jayaraman	73	0.08%
Margin of victory			16,438	19.12%
Turnout			85,974	48.64%
Registered electors			178,266
	DMK win (new seat)

References[]

^ "Form 21E (Return of Election)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
^ "Anna Nagar VVPAT".
^ "EC to tighten grip on cash for votes".
^ "Officials to spread awareness about paper trail system". The Hindu. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
^ "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 21. Retrieved 27 May 2016.

"Statistical reports of assembly elections". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.

[1] "Form 21E (Return of Election)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.

[2] "Anna Nagar VVPAT".

[3] "EC to tighten grip on cash for votes".

[4] "Officials to spread awareness about paper trail system". The Hindu. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2018.

[5] "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 21. Retrieved 27 May 2016.

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